Wikibugs: the practice of template messages in open content collections

Gaio, Loris and den Besten, Matthijs and Rossi, Alessandro and Dalle, Jean-Michel (2009) Wikibugs: the practice of template messages in open content collections. Technical Report DISA Working Paper 2009/4 , Informatica e Studi Aziendali, University of Trento.

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Abstract

In the paper we investigate an organizational practice meant to increase the quality of commons-based peer production: the use of template messages in wiki collections to highlight editorial bugs and call for intervention. In the context of SimpleWiki, an online encyclopedia of the Wikipedia family, we focus on {complex}, a template which is used to flag articles disregarding the overall goals of simplicity and readability. We characterize how this template is placed on and removed from articles and we use survival analysis to study the emergence and successful treatment of these bugs in the collection.

Keywords:	commons based peer production, wikipedia, wiki, survival analysis, quality, bug fixing, template messages, coordination JEL Keys: M15 - IT Management L86 - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
Subjects:	Q Science: QA Mathematics: Q360 Information Theory
ID Code:	1663
Deposited By:	Furlani, Paolo
Deposited On:	14 September 2009
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